rosetum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rosētum.

Noun

rosetum (plural roseta)

1. A rose garden.
   • 1870, The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine, page 169:

     The Weeping Rose should stand singly in the rosetum, or on the lawn.

Latin

Etymology

rosa (“a rose”) +‎ -ētum (“grove”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɔˈseː.tũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [roˈs̬ɛː.tum]

Noun

rosētum n (genitive rosētī); second declension

1. a rose garden; a bed of roses

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rosētum	rosēta
genitive	rosētī	rosētōrum
dative	rosētō	rosētīs
accusative	rosētum	rosēta
ablative	rosētō	rosētīs
vocative	rosētum	rosēta

Related terms

• arborētum
• rosa
• rosāceus
• rosāns
• rosārius
• roseus

References

• “rosetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rosetum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "rosetum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “rosetum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.